Thursday, December 17, 2009

Daily Wrap-Up and Poll: Do We Have Too Much Healthcare In This Country? | OurFuture.org

Daily Wrap-Up and Poll: Do We Have Too Much Healthcare In This Country? | OurFuture.org

We need to stop the excise tax on so-called "Cadillac" health plans - a tax that will affect an increasing number of middle-class workers over the next ten years. In the meantime, feel free to take a poll: "Do you think we have too much healthcare in this country?"

As I explained in The Huffington Post, I plan to devote a great deal of energy in the coming weeks to stopping the excise tax on so-called "Cadillac" health plans - a tax that will affect an increasing number of middle-class workers over the next ten years.

I've never gotten this deeply into direct advocacy before - but this is a bad idea. So there's now a web page at the Campaign For America's Future called "No Middle-Class Health Tax."

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This tax would also represent at least two broken campaign promises: that health reform would not be paid for with new middle-class taxes, and that (in the President's words) "if you like the plan you have now, you can keep it." ...

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